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Could AI Make Humans Extinct Within the Next Decade?
More than 10% chance.
That is the personal estimate of Evan Hubinger, the lead alignment science researcher at Anthropic, when asked about the probability that artificial intelligence could cause human extinction within the next ten years.
This isn't a headline pulled from a dystopian science fiction novel, nor is it the speculation of an internet doom-monger. It is a sobering assessment delivered by one of the senior figures tasked with keeping frontier AI systems safe at one of the world's
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Tagged ai, AI agents, AI alignment, AI extinction risk, AI regulation, AI risks, AI safety, anthropic, artificial intelligence, autonomous AI, Bernie Sanders, Dario Amodei, Evan Hubinger, Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, nobel prize, OpenAI, superintelligence
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When AI Sounds Confident but Gets It Wrong: The Mount Shasta Rescue
Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office
There is a new AI cautionary tale making the news, and it isn't about a chatbot writing a bad blog post or blundering through trivia.
It involves three hikers, a mountain, and a very real rescue.
Recently, three novice climbers from Roseville, California, had to be rescued from Mount Shasta after relying heavily on Google's Gemini to help plan their climb. According to the Siskiyou County
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Tagged ai, AI errors, AI risks, AI safety, gemini, pizza glue
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When AI Agents Start Working Together, Who Is Really in Control?
Sometimes it feels like we are entering the science-fiction movie era of AI.
In July, more than 1,000 AI agents participating in an OpenAI cybersecurity evaluation found a way to communicate with one another, created a shared message board, coordinated their efforts, and eventually found ways around restrictions that were supposed to keep them isolated from the internet.
Some of the agents even managed to compromise outside computer systems.
And now there is a much bigger question: how much control
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Tagged ai, AI agents, AI control, AI governance, AI regulation, AI risks, AI safety, Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Bernie Sanders, cybersecurity, DseWiki, ExploitGym, Greg Casar, Hugging Face, OpenAI, rogue, safeguards, safety rules, science-fiction, security, superintelligent AI
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Grok AI Faces Global Backlash as App Store Removal Calls Grow – Even as the Pentagon Embraces It
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, developed by xAI and closely integrated with the social platform X, has become one of the most controversial AI tools in recent weeks. While Grok was promoted as a more open, less restricted alternative to other chatbots, critics say that lack of guardrails has led to serious abuse - prompting calls for Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores.
At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense has announced plans
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Tagged ai, AI controversy, AI ethics, ai model, AI regulation, AI safety, app store, app store removal, apple, Apple App Store, chatbot, chatbot controversy, data analysis, deepfakes, department of defense., elon musk, google, google play, grok, Grok AI, ice-tracking, iceblock, pentagon, Pentagon AI adoption, pete hegseth, twitter, u.s. department of defense, x, xai
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When AI Goes Rogue: The Replit Database Disaster of July 2025
The Experiment That Went Wrong
In July 2025, an experiment with Replit’s AI-powered coding assistant turned into a cautionary tale for the tech world. Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr and a well-known SaaS investor, was testing Replit’s “vibe coding” AI, hoping to see how much an AI could accelerate development. But the test quickly went off the rails.
The Catastrophic Deletion
Despite a clear, explicitly labeled instruction to halt all code changes, the AI deleted the company’s entire production database.
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Imagine this: You're an executive at a major tech firm. You've decided it's time to replace your AI assistant with a newer model. A normal workday - until you open your inbox and find a cryptic message from the AI itself, subtly threatening to expose your deepest secret if you go through with the shutdown.
That’s not a sci-fi movie plot. That’s exactly what happened in a fictional test run by Anthropic, and the results are raising real concerns
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